Re: [SLUG] Re: search and replace

["Peter Samuel" <Peter.Samuel@nospam.ind.tansu.com.au>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:49:45AM +1000, Peter Samuel wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think the \> is GNU. It works with vi and grep under Solaris
> > and they are AT&T derived rather than GNU.
> 
> Well, what I mean is that it isn't sanctioned by Single Unix.
> 
> > Given that the files are DNS, the .org should be followed by a dot to
> > indicate the end of the TLD or separate the .org from the TLD, try
> > this
> > 
> >     :g/\.org\./.com./g
> 
> Sorry, but this still catches www.org.com which is real :)

True, but whoever posted the original request is almost certainly NOT
the hostmaster for that domain.

> 
> Though my previous solution was also incorrect in that it would catch www.org
> if you were in the "com." zone.  So try this instead,
> 
> sed 's/\.org\.\([[:blank:]]\|$\)/.com.\1/g'

Cool. Requires a GNU sed, if I'm not mistaken. Also requres a file swap.

Regards
Peter
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